ALB and diabetes mellitus: Other variables associated with increased risk of death in the adjusted model wereage (p < 0.0001), diabetes (p < 0.0001), initiation of HD in hospital (p =0.0057), preoperative fluid overload -dialysis by bioimpedance (p < 0.0001) andhigher levels of alkaline phosphatase (p = 0.0083), while the body mass index (p =0.014), hemoglobin levels (p = 0.0074), serum albumin (p = 0.0001), and highertransferrin saturation index (p = 0.0063) were associated with a lower risk ofdeath.